Note sur la peste
- Pariset, Étienne, 1770-1847
- Date:
- 1828
- Reference:
- MS.3767
- Part of:
- Pariset, Étienne (1770-1847)
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
"Note sur la peste: Orient et Égypte" - Author's holograph MS., Paris.
A note signed 'É.P.' in the margin of the first leaf states: 'Cette note a déjà paru au moins en partie. J'ai fait quelques additions à cette copie que j'ai l'honneur d'adresser à S. Excelle Mr. le Ministre des Relations Extérieures'.
Publication/Creation
1828
Physical description
16 ll. 4to. 221/2 x 201/2 cm. Unbound.
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Acquisition note
Purchased 1930.
Biographical note
Pariset was sent to Egypt in 1828 to study the cause of plague. He concluded that the abandonment of embalming in favour of Christian burial had contributed to the spread of the disease: many thousands of bodies were subject to annual inundation by the Nile, and he considered that their putrefaction under the tropical sun was the breeder of pestilence.
Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
see also JUGE (J. J.) & PARISET (É.). Instruction. (3089)
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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- 63916